Plasmon band gap generated by intense ion acoustic waves

Plasmonic photonic crystal with a complete band gap for surface plasmon polariton waves

A dielectric plasmonic photonic crystal for manipulating surface plasmon polariton SPP fields has been designed, fabricated, and tested. The band structure of SPP fields inside the plasmonic photonic crystal has been calculated using the plane wave expansion method and validated by full wave numerical simulations. The fabricated device was characterized using our far-field SPP imaging technique...

Ionospheric Signatures of Acoustic Waves Generated by Transient Tropospheric Forcing

Heating of beam ions by ion acoustic waves

Satellite measurements show that ion beams above the auroral acceleration region are heated to hundreds of eV in a direction perpendicular to the magnetic ®eld. We show that ion acoustic waves may be responsible for much of this heating. Even in the absence of a positive slope in the velocity distribution of the beam ions, ion acoustic waves can be generated by a fan instability. We present ana...

Full band gap for surface acoustic waves in a piezoelectric phononic crystal.

A plane-wave-expansion method suited to the analysis of surface-acoustic-wave propagation in two-dimensional piezoelectric phononic crystals is described. The surface modes of a square-lattice Y-cut lithium niobate phononic crystal with circular void inclusions with a filling fraction of 63% are identified. It is found that a large full band gap with a fractional bandwidth of 34% exists for sur...

Photochemical degradation of azure-b with sulphate radical ion generated by peroxydisulphate ion with cupric ion

In this paper, the photochemical degradation of azure-b by Cu2+/S2O82− process has beenpresented. Cu2+ as photocatalyst and S2O82− ion as photooxidant used in this process. Atextremely low concentrations, cupric ion showed true catalytic activity in the overall process.The influence of various parameters on the performance of the treatment process has beenconsidered, such as pH, concentration o...